高僧傳 11.65

11.65

釋法晤，齊人。家以田桑為業，有男六人，普皆成長。晤年五十喪妻，舉家欝然慕道，父子七人，悉共出家。南至武昌，履行山水，見樊山之陽，可為幽拪之處，本隱士郭長翔所止，於是有意終焉。時武昌太守陳留阮晦聞而奇之，因為剪逕開山，造立房室。晤不食粳米，常資麥飯，日一食而已。誦大小《品》、《法華》。常六時行道，頭陀山澤，不避虎兕。有時在樹下坐禪，或經日不起。以齊永明七年卒於山中，春秋七十有九。

Shi Fawu was a native of Qi. His family made its living by farming and sericulture, and he had six sons, all of whom grew to adulthood. When Fawu was fifty his wife died, and the whole family felt a profound longing for the Way; the father and his six sons, seven people in all, took pravrajyā together. Traveling south to Wuchang, he wandered among the mountains and waters, and seeing the southern slope of Mount Fan, he found it suitable for a secluded hermitage; it had originally been the dwelling of the hermit Guo Changxiang, and Fawu intended to end his days there. At that time, Ruan Hui of Chenliu, the grand administrator of Wuchang, heard of this and marveled at him; he therefore cleared paths, opened up the mountain, and built rooms and chambers for him. Fawu did not eat non-glutinous rice, constantly subsisting only on barley meal, taking just one meal a day. He recited the larger and smaller Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras and the Lotus Sūtra. He constantly practiced the Way during the six periods of the day, wandering as a dhūta through mountains and marshes without fleeing tigers or wild rhinoceroses. At times he sat in dhyāna under trees, sometimes not rising for days. He died in the mountains in the seventh year of the Yongming reign era of the Qi, at the age of seventy-nine.